Weather permitting...

We had oodles of rain showers, thunderstorms, sunny skies, and gloomy skies today.  It got to the point when I said to Jamie, "There's a storm coming over the hill and it will be here in five minutes" and five minutes later WHAM! Lark even did a little weather predicting herself...she's pretty good at it too!

Even though the weather was turbulent, we still managed to get outside.  We planted the last of the tomato plants and harvested our first mesclin lettuce of the season.  The peas and beans are coming up quickly and climbing!  This year we have a green bean house for the kids.  We used blue well piping to make a hoop house and draped pea fencing over the top.  It looks like fun!  I only wish we had built it tall enough for adults.  Alas, little Silas tuckered out from the rain and we took cover in the house.

We took a trip to Center Harbor today.  I needed more black fabric, white fabric, and some more colors for the Swoon quilt.  If you haven't been to Keepsake Quilting, you should go!  It's pretty neat!  I especially like the sale room. You can check them out online at Keepsake Quilting

My favorite moment from the day?  We are in the checkout line at the grocery store and Silas belts out, "Hey sexy lady!" to the store clerk.  Oi!

As for in-house projects, we are still sifting through a sea of toys. Tonight the kids and I went through five baskets.  An half-hour later we had a large contractor bag full and THERE'S STILL MORE TO GO!  I had this brainstorm today about managing toys.  What if we put a Shaker peg rack up and a few large LLBEAN tote bags for HANGING toy storage?  I'm going to figure this out.  I'll let you know what I come up with.

Here's a recipe you might like too! This was our breakfast this morning.
Dr. Jukosky's Zucchini Muffins
2 c. all purpose flour
2 c. sugar
1/3 t. salt
1 t. baking soda
2 t. ground cinnamon
3 egg whites
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 c. applesauce
2 c. grated zucchini
2 t. vanilla extract
1 8 oz. can of crushed pineapple (drained)
1 c. shredded coconut
Preheat ove to 350 degrees.  Grease muffin tins.
Cream butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time, add oil, applesauce, zucchini, vanilla, pineapple
Combine flour, salt, baking soda in a separate bowl.
Pour dry ingredients into wet ingredients.  Stir until combined.
Pour into muffin tins.
Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar and bake for 25 minutes.

Enjoy!